Cuff holder and distender



(No Model.)

, B. R. BACON. CUFF HOLDER AND DISTENDER.

Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

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UNTTEE STATES PATENT EEicE.

BYRON R. BACON, OF EAST ORANGE, NEWV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, ANDTHOMAS R. SULLY, OF BUFFALO, NEYV YORK.

CUFF HOLDER AND DISTENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 447,533, dated March 3,1891.

Application filed September 8, 1890. fierial No. 364,250. (No model.)

T 00% whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, BYRON R. BACON, a citizen of the United States,residing in East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,have invented an Improved Cuff Holder and Distendcr, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to preserve the cuff in a cylindricalform while in use, so to as to prevent such cuff becoming flattened orelliptical, and this distender also serves for holding the cud-buttonsin position upon the cuff Without the use of any connecting-linksextending from one button to the other, and I also provide for using thedistender for connecting the cuff to the wristband or sleeve.-

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the cuff with the distenderapplied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section at right angles to '20 theelevation, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 represents a modification in theconnection for the cuff studs or buttons. Fig. 4is a section, and Fig. 5an elevation, of part of the distender, especially adapted to ladiesuse.

The cuff A is of any desired size or shape, and it is usually providedwith button-holes at 2, by which the same is connected to the wristbandof the shirt, and the button-holes 3 are provided for the studs orbuttons usually 0 applied to the cuff. The cuff-distender B is made ofthin metal or other suitable material, which is preferably cut out witharched portions 4 and with projecting ends that are turned up to formhooks 5, that confine the 3 5 lower edge or band of the cuff A, and thisdistender is usually placed within the cuff, so that the edge of thecuff passes into the hooks, and the said hooks are pressed sufficientlyclosely to confine the fabric of the cuff and connect the distenderfirmly to the cuff, and the general configuration of the distender iscylindrical, so that the cuff itself is given a cylindrical form by thedistender, and the metal or thin material out of which the dis- 5 tenderis made is sufficiently elastic or springy to yield to pressure and toresume its normal shape when the pressure is removed.

It is usually preferable to allow sufficient space between two of thehooks 5 for the but- 0 ton-hole 6 at the central portion of the band ofthe cuff, so that such button-hole may receive the button upon thewristband of the shirt, and near the open edges of the cuff the metal ofthe distender is continued upwardly and outwardly, as at 7, to formclips or con- 5 5 nections for the shanks of the cuff-buttons C.

It is generally preferable to make these clips '7 in the form ofspring-bows, that are forced through the shanks of the cud-buttons andspring outwardly, so as to prevent the shankclips becoming separated ordrawn back out of the cuff-button shanks. By this construction it is notnecessary or advisable to have any link or connection. between onecuff-but ton and the other. Hence the opening between the ends ofthe'cufi is unobstructed and the cuff is free to be opened more or lessat this point by the movement of the hand and wrist, and thecuff-distender and the shankclip project so little upon the surface ofthe cuff as not to come into contact with the hand or wrist in thedisagreeable manner usual with the connecting-link between the shanks ofthe cuff-buttons. The end hooks 5 of the distender should besufficiently near the buttonholes 2 to hold the cuff in its proper shapewithout interfering with the buttoning of the button-holes 2 over thebuttons upon the wrist band of the shirt; but, if desired, the endportions of the distender may extend to such button-holes f2,asindicated by dotted lines at 8,Fig. 3, and there may be a button uponthe distender, or an opening, as indicated by dotted linesat 16, Fig. 3,for the button upon the wristband to be passed through such button-holes2.

Cuffs that are worn by ladies usually pass within the garment sleeve. Toconnect the distender with the sleeve I extendthe distender below thecuff, as at 10, and provide a 0 pin 11 or other fastening device forholding the distender within the garment sleeve, and a button 12 may beprovided for the buttonhole 6 of the cuff.

I claim as my invention 1. The spring cuff-distenderadapted to passaround the inner surface and having hooks to receive the lower edge ofthe cuff and outwardly projecting ends terminating with shank-clips forconnecting with the cuff-buttons, substantially as specified.

2. The cuff-distender of spring material,

having hooks for receiving the lower edge of the cuff and passing aroundthe inner surface of the cuff and arched upwardly between one hook andthe next near the ouit-button hole, and having, outwardly-proj ectingclips for the cufi-button shanks, substantially as specified.

3. The springoufE-distenderB,having hooks 5 for grasping the lower edgeof the cuff, outwardly-projecting ends terminating with shank-clips forthe cufi-Y-buttons, a stud 12 for 10 buttoning on the cuff, and a pin 11for connecting the distender to the sleeve, substantially as specified.

Signed by 1116 this 2d day of September,1890.

BYRON R. BACON. \Vitnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM G. Mo'r'r.

